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Tetrarch  n.  (Rom. Antiq.) A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, any subordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.






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"Tetrarch" Quotes from Famous Books



... Praefect slew himself in my honour, and the Tetrarch of Cilicia scourged himself for my pleasure before ...
— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde

... liable to the mutations that come from fortune, he was very ready to give him the assistance he desired, and this because he called to mind the friendship he had had with Antipater because Herod offered him money to make him king, as he had formerly given it him to make him tetrarch, and chiefly because of his hatred to Antigonus; for he took him to be a seditious person, and an enemy to the Romans. Caesar was also the forwarder to raise Herod's dignity, and to give him his assistance in what he desired, on account of the toils of war which ...
— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus



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